Category: politics

LAUREL HILL — The City Council unanimously decided to leave the city’s ad valorem tax rate unchanged at 3.5 mils as it begins its fiscal year 2016-17 budget planning.

That rate brings in about $50…

FORT WALTON BEACH — State Rep. Matt Gaetz announced his campaign has raised $729,382.87 since entering the race in late March to replace retiring Rep. Jeff Miller, Fla.-District 1.

Gaetz raised $3…

CRESTVIEW — The Constitution Party of Florida will host two candidate forums in North Okaloosa County.

A forum for Okaloosa County School District’s superintendent of schools, school board Distric…

CRESTVIEW — The Crestview City Council will meet 6 p.m. July 11 at Warriors Hall on Stillwell Boulevard.

Here is the meeting's agenda.

REGULAR AGENDA

1. Call to Order

2. Invocation / Pled…

The Warriors Hall flag display was hung this week as the nation celebrated its 240th birthday.

PHOTOS: See photos of the flags being hung in Warriors Hall>>

The display, which also includes h…

LAUREL HILL — The City Council voted 4-1 Thursday night to annex former Laurel Hill City Councilman Johnny James and his wife Ernestine’s property into the city.

It’s been 20 months since the coup…

SHALIMAR — The Okaloosa County Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for period ending Sept. 30, 2015 is now available.

The report, required by state law, is conducted by an independent audit firm…

SHALIMAR — The Florida Association of Counties presented an Okaloosa County commissioner with the Presidential Advocacy Award during the 2016 FAC Annual Conference & Exposition in Orange County.  

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CRESTVIEW — Sen. Greg Evers will be the featured speaker during a community awareness event for a veterans jobs program.

American Legion Post 75 stated in a media release that the event — which is…

CRESTVIEW — The city and county’s animal control agency was in the spotlight when Crestview City Councilmen took turns questioning representatives of the Panhandle Animal Welfare Society, or PAWS.

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